1st Edition

Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) Max Weber

By Jeffrey Alexander Copyright 1983
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    262 Pages
    by Routledge

    The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at ‘paradigm revision’.

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